Motivational Quotes

Freedom

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

19.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

36.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.